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Date:      Sat, 03 Jun 2000 19:07:21 -0700
From:      "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
To:        Jahanur R Subedar <jahanur@jjsoft.com>
Cc:        Jake Ott <jott@frii.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NAT/gated over 2 netcards
Message-ID:  <3939B9D9.1BDE6D0E@home.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000602161211.19304A-100000@ns2.jjsoft.com>

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Jahanur R Subedar wrote:
> 
> Thank You for your answer.
> One more questoin.
> I am trying install two NIC. I successfully installed the Realtek and
> I am trying to install the Compaq PCi NIC.
> It is recognized but does not attach a device with it. So it says "driver
> not assigned" at boot time. THe realtek install was realy easy it
> recognized it as NE2000 driver and assigned ed1 very easily.
> I know I heard somewhere that I can have NAT box running with one NIC
> but the connection will be slow.
> Can you tell me is there anything I need to do in the Firewall to make
> this 2nd NIC work.
> Help plaese.

Yes, you can do it just give the nic card two address, one on each network,
on must be an alias address, see man ifconfig for details.

and it is not really that slow, what this does is that each packet
travel twice the same segment, each time one address.

raymundo

> 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Raymundo M. Vega wrote:
>


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